 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1787 - 466 pages
...pearl claimed the firft rank after the diamond ""; and a variety of aromatics , that were confumed in religious worship and the pomp of funerals. The labour and risk of the voyage was rewarded with almoft incre- CHIP. dible profit ; but the profit was made upon Roman n. fubjects, and a few individuals... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1804 - 474 pages
...that river as far as Alexandria, it was poured, without delay, into the capital of the empire i03. The objects of oriental traffic were splendid and...esteemed not inferior in value to a pound of gold 104 ; precious 101 Tacit. Germania, c. 45. Plin. Hist. Nat. xxxviii. 11. The latter observed, with... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 542 pages
...splendid and trifling : silk, a pound of which was esteemed not inferior in value to a pound of gold ; m precious stones, among which the pearl claimed the first rank after the diamond ; n and a variety of aromatics, that were consumed in religious worship and the pomp of funerals. The... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 472 pages
...descended that river as far as Alexandria, it was poured, without delay, into the capital of the empire103. The objects of oriental traffic were splendid and...which was esteemed not inferior in value to a pound of gold104; precious stones, among 101 Tacit. Germania, c. 45. Plin. Hist. Nat. xxxviii. 11. The latter... | |
 | James Savage - History - 1820 - 346 pages
...descended that river as far asAlexandria, it was poured without delay, into the capital of the empire. The objects of oriental traffic were splendid and...the first rank after the diamond : and a variety of arouaatics, that were consumed in religious worship and the pomp of funerals. The labour and risk of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1821 - 474 pages
...pound of gold ;m precious stones, among which the pearl claimed the first rank after the diamond ;n and a variety of aromatics, that were consumed in...pomp of funerals. The labour and risk of the voyage were rewarded with almost incredible profit; but the profit was made upon Roman subjects, and a few... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1831 - 526 pages
...descended that river as far as Alexandria, it was poured, without delay, into the capital of the empire.(S) The objects of oriental traffic were splendid and trifling ; silk, a pound of wnich was esteemed not inferior in value toa pound of gold ;(4) precious stones, among which the pearl... | |
 | University magazine - 1848 - 792 pages
...those of India and Ceylon. Gibbon, in his •• Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," writes : — " The objects of Oriental traffic were splendid and...inferior in value to a pound of gold ; precious stones, amongst which the pearl claimed the first rank after the diamond ; and a variety of aromatics that... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1837 - 1304 pages
...that river as far as Alexandria, it was poured, without delay, into the capital of the empire. lul The objects of oriental traffic were splendid and...esteemed not inferior in value to a pound of gold ; lul precious stones, among which the pearl claiuud the first rank after the diamond; lo; > and a... | |
 | John Gardner Wilkinson - Agriculture - 1837 - 458 pages
...returning in the month of December or January. " The principal objects of oriental traffic," says Gibbon, " were splendid and trifling : silk (a pound of which...inferior in value to a pound of gold), precious stones, and a variety of aromatics." When Strabo visited Egypt the Myos Hormos seems to have superseded Berenice,... | |
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The objects of oriental traffic were splendid and trifling; silk, a pound of which was esteemed not inferior in value to a pound of gold; precious stones, among which the pearl claimed the first rank after the diamond; and a variety of aromatics, that... 
